Davis led the team in homers (33) and RBIs (85) while playing both corner outfield positions as well as first base and DH. He did all of that while making $488,000.

Chris Davis has secured his spot in the Orioles' lineup. (AP Photo)

And he has picked up this season right where he left off in 2012. Davis has homered and drove in at least three runs in each of Baltimore’s four games, including an eighth-inning grand slam Friday that broke a 5-5 tie. His 19 RBIs—he had five more in Friday's win—are nine more than any other player in the majors, and he already has equaled or surpassed the run production of 16 of the majors’ 30 teams this season.

“I’ve seen a lot of guys hit the ball well against us in a three-game series. That’s the most locked in I’ve ever seen anybody,” Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria told The Baltimore Sun.

Davis got a nice salary bump—he avoided arbitration by agreeing to a $3.3 million salary for 2013—but remains one of the majors’ best bargains. Not bad for a guy who the Texas Rangers had all but given up on when they dealt him to the Orioles at the trade deadline in 2011.

Now, the lefthanded-hitting Davis has a permanent spot in the field (first base) and in one of the majors’ hottest-hitting young lineups. And he is just entering his prime at age 27.